Citizen 13660
by Mine Okubo
New York: Colubmia University Press, 1946. Very Good +/Very Good -. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); decorative grey cloth, blue topstain, in illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present; [vi],209pp; illustrations throughout. Dust jacket chipped along edges and spine; general scuffing; extensive tape mending along edges, principally at verso. Boards show light shelfwear... Read More
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Publicity for 9th Conference of Jazz Vocalists in Lublin - Vocalizing brick wall
by Rafał Olbiński
1979. Very Good. Text on poster: The 9th Meeting of Jazz Vocalists in Lublin // 9te Lubelskie Spotkania Wokalistów Jazzowych // Heraldic shield of Lublin // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo // May 24-27 1979. Date: 1979. Height x width: 97cm x 68cm. Printing information: lower right corner: Druk: Zakł. Offset. W-wa, z. 9319, n. 2500 C-88.... Read More
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Polish Artistic Agency poster naming three jazz artists - Saxophonist Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski in surreal raven hat
by Rafał Olbiński
1980. Very Good. Text on poster: Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski // Marek Bliziński // Witold Szczurek // Andrej Dąbrowski // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo. Date: 1980 presumed. Height x width: 67.5cm x 91.5cm. Printing information: lower right corner corner: PAGART logo // Polska Agencja Artystyczna // Plac Zwyciȩstwa 9 // 00-078 Warszawa, Poland // Druk Zakł. Offset.... Read More
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![Georg Baselitz: La Grande Notte in Bianco [The Long Sleepless Night]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/876/047/1428047876.0.m.jpg)
Georg Baselitz: La Grande Notte in Bianco [The Long Sleepless Night]
by Georg Baselitz; Achille Bonito Oliva
Rome: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. Very Good. Rome: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Tall Quarto (31x26x1.5cm); 76pp. Nineteen full-page color reproductions of Baselitz's paintings, with many additional background and documentary images. Pictorial boards over sewn gatherings of heavy stock. Text in both Italian and English. Boards are sturdy and square with a couple faint bumps to bottom edges. Binding... Read More
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Evidence: Poems [Signed]
by Mary Oliver
Boston: Beacon Press, 2009. Near Fine/Near Fine. Boston: Beacon Press, 2009. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped blue pictorial dust jacket; [12],74pp. Very light shelf wear, boards slightly bowed, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Signed by the author on title page.
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New and Selected Poems
by Mary Oliver
Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. Very Good/Near Fine. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in green unclipped dust jacket; xii,255pp. Very light shelf wear, top textblock edge a bit foxed, faint evidence of erased gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better overall. One of the author's most... Read More
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Long Life: Essays and Other Writings [Uncorrected Page Proofs]
by Mary Oliver
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, 2004. Very Good. [Cambridge, MA]: Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, [2004]. Uncorrected Page Proofs. Slim octavo (21.5cm); publisher's blue printed card wrappers; xiv,[2],101pp. Light shelf wear to wrapper margins, blue pencil mark and brief patch of discoloration to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. Promotional letter... Read More
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The Night Traveler
by Mary Oliver
N.p.: Bits Chapbook, 1978. Very Good. N.p.: Bits Chapbook, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; [32]pp. Light wear and sunning to wrapper extremities, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. The third book by the late American poet who was later awarded both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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![She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night [Limited Edition, Signed by Thomson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/075/001/1506001075.0.m.jpg)
She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night [Limited Edition, Signed by Thomson]
by Oliver Goldsmith; Hugh Thomson [illus.]
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Very Good. London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d [1912]. First Thus, Limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 268. Folio; publisher's full decorative vellum elaborately embossed in gilt and green, top edge gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; 197pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, twenty-four (24) leaves of plates, additional half-tone illus. throughout... Read More
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She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night
by Oliver Goldsmith; Hugh Thomson [illus.]
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Very Good. New York: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. but 1912. First American Edition. Quarto; publisher's blue-green decorative cloth elaborately stamped in gilt; [2],197pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, twenty-four tipped in leaves of plates, half-tone text illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in blue-green. Boards lightly scuffed with brief exposure at corners, spine a... Read More
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![Little Benny Wanted a Pony [Inscribed and Signed by Richard Scarry and his wife Patricia to their nephew]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/327/881/1566881327.0.m.jpg)
Little Benny Wanted a Pony [Inscribed and Signed by Richard Scarry and his wife Patricia to their nephew]
by Oliver O'Connor Barrett; Richard Scarry [illus.]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Presumed later printing though final page has been torn out (presumably by Scarry's nephew) and we have been unable to determine the printing. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; Unpaginated; color illus. throughout. Light edgewear and tear along bottom fifth of spine; general soiling. Binding sound.... Read More
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![The Story of an African Farm [Limited Edition, Signed by Hogarth]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/716/138/1622138716.0.m.jpg)
The Story of an African Farm [Limited Edition, Signed by Hogarth]
by Olive Schreiner; Isak Dinesen [intro.]; Paul Hogarth [illus.]
Westerham, Kent: Limited Editions Club / Westerham Press, 1961. Very Good. [Westerham, Kent]: Printed for The Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Westerham Press, 1961. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 1495. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's full "hand-beaten" roan, brown gilt-lettered pine label and topstain, color pictorial endpapers, in original paper-covered slipcase;... Read More
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A Victorian Art of Fiction: Essays on the Novel in British Periodicals. Vol. 1: 1830-1850; Vol. 2: 1851-1869; Vol. 3: 1870-1900
by John Charles Olmsted
New York: Garland Publishing, 1979. Very Good. New York: Garland Publishing, 1979. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo (23.5m.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Ex-Simpson Library-UMW with their usual markings, spine labels of Vol. 2 & 3 removed with some glue residue (Vol. 1 shows no evidence of ever having had a spine label), else a Very Good, tight... Read More
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The Maximus Poems
by Charles Olson
New York: Jargon / Corinth, 1960. Very Good. New York: Jargon / Corinth Books, 1960. First Complete Edition, Limited Issue of 75 numbered copies bound in cloth from a total hardcover run of 101, this being #37. Tall octavo; 160pp. Brown cloth boards with printed paper cover and spine labels. Light wear to edges; mild rubbing and toning;... Read More
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![Call Me Ishmael [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/017/401/1691401017.0.m.jpg)
Call Me Ishmael [Limited Edition]
by Charles Olson
New York: Grove Press, 1958. Very Good. New York: Grove Press, c. 1947 [but 1958]. Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 57. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine; [10],119pp. Spine gilt a bit dulled, endpapers toned, else Very Good, straight and sound.
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![Utah: A Novel [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/485/604/1407604485.0.m.jpg)
Utah: A Novel [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Toby Olson
New York: The Linden Press / Simon and Schuster, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Linden Press / Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition with full numberline. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in at front. Octavo; 282pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $17.95 price intact; book in blue paper and beige cloth spine with blue lettering.... Read More
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![[Original Artwork] "Beware Unfamiliar Spirits" by Maurice Zolotow](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/211/198/1657198211.0.m.jpg)
[Original Artwork] "Beware Unfamiliar Spirits" by Maurice Zolotow
by [Illustration Art] R[obert] Olszewski
N.p., 1946. Very Good. N.p.: 1946. Original artwork (19x50.5cm.) on stiff card board signed at bottom margin "R. Olszewski." Light soil and toning to card, else Very Good and sound. Original illustration to accompany Maurice Zolotow's short story "Beware Unfamiliar Spirits," which first appeared in the "Saturday Evening Post" on July 20, 1946. The illustration, by... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Presented by Willy Pogany
by Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]; Willy Pogany [illus.]
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1909. Very Good. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1909. Early Pogany-illustrated Edition. Tall quarto. Unpaginated. 24 mounted color plates. Attractively bound in publisher's red full morocco; gilt and blank tooling to spine and upper board; top edge gilt; illustrated endpapers. Light wear to edges and joints; slightly bowed towards... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]; Frank Brangwyn [illus.]
London: T.N. Foulis, 1919. Very Good. London: T.N. Foulis, 1919. First Thus. Quarto; publisher's cream pictorial cloth stamped in brown; [114]pp.; fifteen leaves of color plates tipped to stiff grey stock (tissue guards), text printed within grey decorative border throughout. Cloth a bit soiled, corners gently bumped, hinges reinforced and brief paper repair to front free endpaper, else... Read More
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The Form of the African Novel: A Critical Essay
by Kole Omotoso
Akure, Nigeria: Fagbamigbe Publishers, 1979. Very Good. Akure, Nigeria: Fagbamigbe Publishers, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. 74pp., [1] page bibliography. Printed wraps. Light wear to edges with some general rubbing and smudging. Binding sound. Crease to interior, else unmarked; a Very Good copy. Omotoso writes in the introduction that this essay emanated from his teaching of "Ambiguous Adventure"... Read More
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![Rat Jelly [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/940/563/1699563940.0.m.jpg)
Rat Jelly [Limited Edition]
by Michael Ondaatje
Toronto, Canada: Coach House Press, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. Toronto, Canada: Coach House Press, 1973. First Edition, Limited to 2000 copies. Slim octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 71pp. Moderate rubbing and wear to jacket margins, brief soil spots to rear panel, else a Very Good and sound copy of the very scarce hardcover issue of the... Read More
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Tin Roof [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Michael Ondaatje
Lantzville, BC, Canada: Island Writing Series, 1982. Near Fine. [Lantzville, BC, Canada]: Island Writing Series, 1982. First Edition, Limited to 50 hardcover copies of which this is no. 42. Slim octavo; publisher's brown textured paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; [26]pp. A hint of wear to spine ends and corners, else a Fine copy. Signed by the author on title... Read More
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The Rugs and Textiles of Hereke: A Documentary Account of the History of Hereke, Court Workshop to Model Factory
by Onder Kucukerman; Maggie Quigley-Pinar [trans.]
Ankara, Turkey: Sumerbank Genel Mudurlugu, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. Ankara, Turkey: Sumerbank Genel Mudurlugu, [1987]. First English Language Translation. Quarto (28cm); publisher's boards in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; 246pp.; illus. throughout, many in full color. Light shelf wear to board and dust jacket margins, else Very Good and sound.
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The Hairy Ape
by Eugene O'Neill
London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. First UK Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); [vi],111pp. Publisher's white dust jacket printed in black and blue lettering with 7s. 6d. net price intact; boards in light blue cloth with white spine label. Dampstaining to jacket along top edges, down folds, and briefly at spine panel, with shallow... Read More
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The Open Secret
by Oliver Onions
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green gilt-stamped cloth; [6],321pp. Gilt starting to flake, most heavily at spine, corners slightly nudged, faint foxing to textblock fore-edge, else a Very Good, sound copy overall.
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